Evaluating the capacity of land to shelter growing human activity without sacrificing their quality and source of life

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Sunday, May 21, 2017

A CAUTIONARY COMMENT

All architects, planners, city officials and residents should
be careful of what they propose without a consistent ability to measure and
evaluate the consequences. Intuition has never been a substitute for knowledge.
It has simply been a catalyst producing both success and failure. Land is an
irreplaceable source of life that continues to be squandered by promiscuous
experimentation and speculation. Pictures of success and failure do not convey
the information needed to repeat the first and avoid the second.

Consistent shelter capacity measurement, prediction and
evaluation is defined and explained in my new book, The Science of City
Design. It is available in e-book and paperback from Amazon.com.

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About Me

Walter Hosack has leadership, management, design, and production experience in city planning, urban design, architecture, civil engineering, building regulation, code compliance, and zoning administration. He is a retired registered architect, certified city planner, and government official. He has been a past member of the AIA, AICP, and NCARB. Over the past 40 years, he has planned, designed, produced, and managed projects ranging in size from residential homes to $100 million commercial and institutional projects.
He is the author of "Land Development Calculations" and attached software entitled, "Development Capacity Evaluation" published by The McGraw-Hill Companies, New York, NY, 2001, second edition 2010. The first edition was translated and published by The China Electric Power Press, Beijing, China in 2007.
The "Science of City Design" is his latest effort and was released in July, 2016.
These books can be found at: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001IR3ODO?ref_=pe_584750_33951330
Mr. Hosack holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Architecture and City Design from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.